Too bad Mrs. Evanchik’s rag didn’t pick up the story. I betcha Krugman could have had some fun with it. But he’s very serious nowadays. He’s probably grumpy because he still has to work for a living. A mediocre prognosticator, he has excellent hindsight.

Just when you think you’ve seen everything, here is a video of two giraffes fighting. It’s a bit like the last rounds of a heavyweight fight, only the giraffes use their heads as fists, swinging them at each other’s bodies, while they stay close, leaning up against one another.

Wait. So let me get this straight. No matter how many half-formed ideas I have, if I don’t write them down, nothing happens here. I can’t just click on this site a few times and stuff will magically appear like on the other sites I visit? I have to do something?

Sex chronicler Violet Blue reveals a little-known legacy of the Burning Man festival — increases in sexually transmitted diseases. Health clinics in the San Francisco area report a regular spike in sexually transmitted diseases in the weeks after the big brouhaha on the playa. Once again, it is shown that hippies and their cultural descendants are hazardous to your health.

It’s not late to send a little love, people. If you’re online, then post a link. Check out the “Best of” section if you are wondering what to specifically link to, or choose your own favorite post, or just link to the home page at michel.evanchik.net.

That ends today’s shameless self-promotion. Thanks for reading. Special big mega-thanks for linking. And a super-special gasface for everybody else.

With even the conservative National Review admitting that departing Attorney General Gonzales is an incompetent way out of his depth, there can be little doubt that his departure is well overdue. But every cloud has a silver lining, as the liberal Talking Points Memo has helpfully pointed out. They have compiled a video “top ten” of Gonzales miscues. Saturday Night Live hasn’t been this funny in years.